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Itron picks Software AG to ‘expand AMI capabilities’ with LwM2M-Cumulocity combo

Utility metering specialist Itron has struck a deal with German enterprise software and data orchestration firm Software AG to use its Cumulocity IoT platform for management of low-power IoT devices. The pair will use the open Lightweight M2M (LwM2M) protocol to translate telemetry data...

One million LoRaWAN meters – Connexin wins ‘largest UK water meter contract’

UK broadband and digital service provider Connexin has won a deal with utility supplier Essex & Suffolk Water to manage the roll-out of smart meters across the Essex and Suffolk supply regions, to the northeast of London. The advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) framework contract...

Smart meters – the most important ‘thing’ in the internet of things (a creation story)

Note, this article is taken from the upcoming RCR Wireless editorial report on smart meters, and is spliced together from different excerpts from the report. The report – called, Smart Meters: Why Meters Matter, and How Cellular IoT is Driving the Energy Transition –...

Itron announces smart water metering deployment in Singapore

The smart water metering rollout will connect some 300,000 Itron residential and C&I smart water meters to the existing network   Industrial IoT provider Itron, which specializing in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, announced that Singapore’s national water agency, PUB, is leveraging SP Group’s...

Itron partners with SmartThings to focus on utility energy analytics

The partnership will combine Itron’s distributed intelligence ecosystem with SmartThings Energy service to provide real-time energy readings and consumption patterns   Itron announced it is working together with Samsung subsidiary SmartThings to connect Itron’s industrial IoT (IIoT) network solution and SmartThings’ services and solutions. The collaboration will...

‘Start of an IoT mega-cycle’ – Silicon Labs talks Matter, Amazon Sidewalk, Wi-SUN

As US IoT chipmaker Silicon Labs opens the (virtual) doors to its third Works With event (September 12-14), and readies a rush of new product releases (coverage incoming), Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with Ross Sabolcik, the firm’s general manager for industrial and commercial,...

Portland upgrades to Dhyan’s streetlight platform, as Echelon fallout continues

The city of Portland in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform (CMS)  from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from smart lighting company Echelon. It is the same switchover carried out by the town...

Itron, Microsoft combine on ‘performant’ cloud-based smart meter management

Industrial IoT provider Itron, specialising in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, is working with Microsoft to provide cloud-based meter data management (MDM) services to customers. The pair have completed a round of performance and scalability testing of Itron’s Enterprise Edition Meter Data...

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact in the smart city field

  The Covid-19 pandemic is having a huge global impact, clearly. Enterprise IoT Insights talked with technology vendors and market analysts to analyze the impact of the pandemic on smart cities and to understand what new challenges, opportunities and use cases will arise in a...

Con Edison installs four million smart meters in New York as part of smart grid upgrade

US energy company Consolidated Edison (Con Edison) has deployed a total of four million smart gas modules and electricity meters across its service territory in New York as a part of its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) project with Itron. The duration of the project,...

Itron signs smart metering deals with Versant Power and Pacific Northern Gas

Electric transmission and distribution utility Versant Power will deploy advanced metering solutions and smart meters in Maine, in the US, with a view to modernize its electricity grid. Versant Power plans to initiate some project activities in 2021 and meter installations are scheduled to...

BT switches on NB-IoT in UK to underpin country’s “largest” smart water pilot

UK water utility Yorkshire Water is in the final stages of an NB-IoT and AI pilot with BT to connect almost 4,000 acoustic, flow, pressure, and water quality monitors to manage leaks and interruptions in the water network in the north of England.  BT, which...

Potentially billions of IoT devices at risk from Ripple20 attacks – major brands are flagged

Security experts have identified a series of 19 vulnerabilities, given the name Ripple20, in a small software library integrated into “hundreds of millions”, and potentially billions, of IoT devices that have been sold into consumer, enterprise and industrial markets during the past two decades. Israeli...

Miami-Dade deploys IoT solution from Itron for waste water management

Miami-Dade County in southeastern Florida in the US has deployed an IoT solution for waste water management to mitigate regulatory issues, prevent sewer overflows, improve water quality, and ensure safety for the public. Tech company Itron, based in Washington state, has been drafted in by...

The three most innovative deployments of streetlighting-as-a-platform for smart cities

What smart-city lighting deployments are particularly innovative? That was the question Enterprise IoT Insights put to market commentators, during its research for a new editorial report (available tomorrow), which considers how smart lighting, in buildings and cities, is being used as a springboard for...

Stockholm recruits Itron to manage smart-city streetlighting

The city of Stockholm in Sweden is to deploy a software platform from Itron to manage its streetlights, according to the US-based industrial networking company. Itron has signed a contract with Stockholm to deploy its Streetlight.Vision (SLV) platform. SLV delivers asset management, analytics and control...

Itron wins contract to upgrade local Swedish smart grid and meters

US-based industrial networking company Itron has signed with local electricity provider Borås Elnät in Sweden to swap-in 46,000 smart electric meters and layer-in sensors and analytics across its grid infrastructure. Borås Elnät operates in the city of Borås in Västra Götaland County, in Sweden. Itron...

Itron on 2020: Easier funding, higher priority, better data integration for smarter cities

  Itai Dadon, director of smart cities and IoT, Itron: 1. The finance industry takes an interest “Cities continue to grow at a fast pace; at the same time, they are learning fast and their strategy around digital transformation is maturing, which is generating a lot of...

Itron to install 280,000 smart water meters in Kentucky

Liberty Lake based IoT provider Itron has signed a contract with Louisville Water Company, in Louisville, Kentucky, to replace around 280,000 water meters. Itron will install smart meters in their place, alongside a data management platform. It said the meters capture and communicate data around...

Rocky Mountain Power appoints Itron to upgrade smart grid capabilities

IoT system provider Itron has signed a deal with Rocky Mountain Power to deploy new smart meters and smart grid capabilities. The electric company, serving customers in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, will get a real-time read on grid devices and operations, said Itron.  Rocky Mountain...

São Paulo utility seeks to stop 40% water losses with smart metering from Itron

The Department of Water and Sewage (DAE) of Americana in São Paulo, Brazil, will deploy smart meters and management solutions from Itron to stem water losses from 80,000 water and sewage connections. It is also seeking to gain closer insight of the performance of...

Itron to connect 240,000 smart electricity meters in Western Australia

Itron has a deal with givernment owned utility Western Power in Australia to connect around 240,000 electricity meters. Western Power, in Western Australia, will gain visibility into the operation of its electricity distribution network, enabling automated data collection, new remote services and the ability...

Itron to provide IoT-based solution for Libery Utilities in the US

U.S. tech firm Itron has signed a contract with Liberty Utilities Company, a subsidiary of Algonquin Power and Utilities, which operates nearly 40 utilities in 13 U.S. states. Under the agreement, Liberty Utilities will deploy Itron’s OpenWay Riva, an internet of things solution that...

Street-lighting to drive $15bn energy savings; Siemens tops smart-city review

Juniper Research claims street lighting upgrades will deliver $15 billion in cumulative energy savings for cities in the period to 2023. These savings will be achieved both by converting lamps to energy-efficient LEDs and by adding connectivity to monitor and control individual lights. It said...